Share your thoughts on the Lockerbie bomber’s release

Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who is terminally ill, has been released from a Scottish prison. Al-Megrahi is the only man convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people, many of whom had links to the Capital Region.
Share your thoughts below.

Hey, we’re ALL going to die someday. And believe it or not, people DO die in prison.
So whaddya say — why not empty the prisons around the world, so all the criminals can go home to die … whenever?
What a pile of tripe.

The release of this animal shows just how the legal system, world- wide, has run amuck!! Judges and lawyers should be held responsible for the heinous crimes the recidivist thugs administer to good citizens. Unfoturnately, these shysters obtain exorbitant bankrolls paid by the good citizens who are recepients of these criminals!! The average citizen, the victims and/or their families must administer the punishment not the pettifogger who has no idea of society outside of the classroom and thinks only of money.

Chuck Schumer…
never an Upstate advocate but rather a NYC banking advocate, scored a cheap and easy 2 point lay up yesterday by DEMANDING the United Nations condemn Libya for celebrating the bomber’s release.

Chuck should spend more time working for New Yorkers and not give advice to the UN but…

Never one to miss reaping a litle cheap political hay while not really doing much at all, Schumer was in front of every TV camera he could find and acting like quite the tough talker.

Shocking to see him let free. humanitarian, my ass. This animal deserved to die in prison, period. Why did he deserve to be let free? He was convicted and sentenced and was serving his time. If he happens to contract a fatal disease, then he should get medical care, but not freedom. That’s giving humanitarianism too big of a berth.

Susan Atkins is dying from cancer – is still in prison – and has been refused parole. Thats because the victims families show up at every parole hearing to speak against any parole for her. If all the families showed up to speak against his release – he might not have been set free and died where he belongs – alone in prison.

bottom line for the apologists is it was only a plane of americans…
and all that was lost was a really good plane… right American haters?

nice to see the “tough” letter that was sent without any meaningful public outcry from our leadership on either side of the aisle… someone should have proposed sanctions, etc in light of this travesty.

#4 & #7 – Please refrain from insulting animals. Animals have no capacity for evil, and that in itself makes them superior to humans.

#5 – Why not stick to the subject instead of grasping at straws to turn this into your own pathetic little partisan rant. The headline asked you to share your thoughts on the bomber’s release, NOT your thoughts on Chuck Schumer. Or is your position that Chuck Schumer is worse than the bomber? Or haven’t you formed an opinion on the bomber because you’ve been too busy obsessing about Chuck Schumer?

Perhaps they should have executed him and put him out of his misery. He killed a lot of people. Somebody should have blown him up like he did to so many others. I do hope his death is slow, painful, problematic, agonizing, and filled with thoughts of those who he has taken with his selfish action. I wish for him to go to hell.